if we are unconscious during sleep, why isn’t going to sleep like jumping forward in time?

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If sleep means the disappearance of consciousness, shouldn’t sleeping be basically like blinking, and then the next thing we know it’s eight hours later?

But in reality, we can tell some time has passed. And me, personally at least, I can usually estimate how long I’ve been asleep with some accuracy.

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For all intents and purposes, you do “jump” forward in time as far as you are consciously aware. But you’re not stupid and you immediately remember that you’ve been asleep and that time was moving normally during that time. You are very aware that you didn’t just break the entire spacetime continuum.

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